Clinton says Trump running racist campaign

Posted: 4:29 pm Thursday, August 25th, 2016

By Jamie Dupree

In her most direct attack yet on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton accused the Republican nominee for President of running a campaign based on ‘a steady stream of bigotry,’ as she charged the real estate mogul was using ‘discredited conspiracy theories’ to stoke the anger of his supporters.

“From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia,” Clinton said.

“This is someone who re-tweets white supremacists,” Clinton told an audience in Reno, Nevada, as she said a “fringe element has effectively taken over Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party.”

“Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters,” Clinton added.

Clinton invoked the names of two high profile Republicans – Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas – as she noted how Republicans were uneasy with some of Trump’s claims, like one that said Cruz’s father was somehow involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.

It was the first public speech by Clinton in over a week, after she had spent recent days focused more on fundraising than campaign stops.

On social media, the Clinton campaign was even more direct using video of the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke to say that white nationalist groups want Trump to win the White House.